Blind Assassin

Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following.

Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.

Sora mai mare a Laurei Chase, Iris, casatorita la optsprezece ani cu un industrial proeminent din punct de vedere politic, dar acum saraca si optzeci si doi, locuieste in Port Ticonderoga, un oras dominat de familia lor odinioara prospera inainte de Primul Razboi. In timp ce face fata corpului ei de incredere, Iris reflecta asupra ei departe de viata exemplara, in special evenimentele din jurul mortii tragice a surorii sale.